nonaldermanic

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adjective

Not aldermanic; Not being or involving an alderman.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

adjectivenonaldermanic (comparative more nonaldermanic, superlative most nonaldermanic)

comparative more nonaldermanic · superlative most nonaldermanic

  1. Not aldermanic; Not being or involving an alderman.

    A mayor of a nonaldermanic city or village does not have a veto power; a mayor in an aldermanic structure has very restricted voting powers;

    1984, Stephen Davis Porter, Illinois Appellate Reports, page 480
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    As nonaldermanic members were, naturally, less informed concerning the problems with which the commission was concerned than were the aldermanic members, the chairman called a number of "seminar meetings" for the nonaldermanic members alone.

    1954, Chicago (Ill.). Home Rule Commission, Chicago's Government, Its Structural Modernization and Home Rule Problems, page 8

    […] evidence of nonaldermanic elections involving black candidates was admissible in § 2 vote dilution action as proof of local voting patterns, where district court had statistical data of only two city aldermanic elections.

    1989, West's Federal Practice Digest 4th - Volume 77, page 496

    […] there were still living in the City and Liberties fifteen nobleman and their ladies, one ambassador, and thirty-four nonaldermanic knights, some of them government contractors and officials like Sir Henry Spiller or Sir William Russell, some of them royal officials like Sir Robert Heath , others mere landed gentry like Sir Thomas Richardson.

    2016, Barbara C. Malament, After the Reformation: Essays in Honor of J. H. Hexter, page 187

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